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WATER melons grow in the deserts of que professan la arte y disciplina militar. South Africa.-PHILIP, vol. 2, p. 121.

FLIES annually destroyed by fire at Florence."-GALIFFE, Italy, vol. 2, p. 408.

"REX NEMORENSIS, a priest of Diana at Nemi by the lake, who held his place by the tenure of having murdered his prede

cessor, and was never without a drawn sword to protect himself against his aspirant successor.”—Mementoes of a Tour, vol. 2, p. 217.

Gas from a burning spring used for domestic purposes in America.—M‘KENNEY'S Sketches, p. 84.

GALILEO's finger bit off by an antiquary. DUPPA's Travels, p. 13.

Dios me dè cient años de guerra, y no un dia de battalla."—GARIBAY, vol. 4, p. 1031.

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THE miscreant Burke was asked how he felt when pursuing his trade of murder, he A SAINTLY beard.-HEBER's Journal, vol. replied that "he had no feelings about it 2, p. 17. when he was awake, but that when he slept he had frightful dreams, such as he had

THE modern Greeks use Ma for B.- never had before." TURNER'S Tour, vol. 1, p. 145.

STRANGE history of a Corsican who was like Prince Leopold of Naples.-Ibid. p. 195.

Drink had something to do with this waking state, for the price of blood was chiefly expended in ardent spirits.

"SHALL I make spirits fetch me what I please?

RED sand fell with the rain at Zante.--I'll have them fly to India for gold,

Ibid. p. 204.

Ransack the ocean for orient pearl,

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Aaron Purgatus, a book by Monceau, | In America, where they are sometimes or Moncæus, to justify Aaron for making the golden calf!-BAYLE.

"KNOWEST thou not that fish caught with medicines, and women gotten with witchcraft are never wholesome."-Euphues.

The first assertion may be true, and probably is; the beasts killed by the Indian poisoned arrow are not rendered unfit for food. The effect is altogether different.

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frozen as hard as stones, they rot if thawed in open day; but if thawed in darkness they do not rot, and lose very little of their natural odour and properties." — Recuerd Indust. xiv. p. 81, as quoted in Jameson's Edinburgh New Phil. Journal.

CHORISTERS pressed formerly.-TUSSER, p. 316.

"FOR Some centuries there was scarcely INDIANS —“ Their connection with the lowest orders in the United States has in-milies, who could write his name; wherea Knight of Malta, though all of noble fa- | daced a shocking demoralization; the greater fore the Vice-Chancellor who committed all namber of them in the United States are the acts of their chapters to writing, was always a clergyman.” — CARTE's Life of Ormond, vol. 1, p. xxxviii.

new entirely dependent on them; they are messily decreasing, or in some instances reng fander west. The manner in which sher Live among the Americans, without actually amalgamating, is curious; they have no vote, no privilege as citizens; but this indiference towards them is got over by saying, that they are considered as and treated with as independent nations.' I should however suppose, if they became farmers, out of the lands appropriated to them and gained property, they would be entitled to the rights of citizens. Except in one part of this Continent, they have never yet shewed themselves patient of regular labour; this exception is at Nantucket, where they have long assisted in navigating the whaleships, and prove active, good seamen. They are now becoming extinct most rapidly; the habits of a seaman in such long voyages, and the irregularities attached to it, are sufficient causes. The few who remain at home marry into the lowest orders of whites or of negroes; the latter is the most common."

IN the Independent Whig are some remarks by Gordon on Sir R. L'Estrange's style.

Frozen Potatoes.-"In the time of frosts, the only precaution necessary is, to retain the potatoes in a perfectly dark place for some days after the thaw has commenced.

“E CRUDELE il rimorso a i solitari,

Ricadendo sul cuor, come in lor centro,
Chi i pensier non divia,
Si pascon del velen che sta piu dentro."

MAGGI, tom. 2, p. 72,

"It appears," says PERCY, "from the Earl of Northumberland's Household Book, that horses were not so usually fed with corn loose in the manger, in the present manner, as with their provender made into loaves."-N. BEN JONSON, vol. 2, p. 118.

Horse loaves and horse bread are freate the same bread, at least bread called by quently mentioned, and probably the poor the same name, certainly.

"A SERPENT ere he comes to be a dragon, Does eat a bat."

BEN JONSON, Cataline, vol. 4, p. 269. A serpent, the Greek proverb says.1

"THE ROman soldiers bore other devices for their standards as commonly as the eagle, minotaurs, boars, wolves, dragons, &c. till Marius having won many battles under the eagle, introduced that more generally. Cataline had his (M.'s) silver eagle, and put

I See GIFFORD'S Note in loc.-J. W. W.

some faith in it."- GIFFORD'S Ben Jonson, | Cæsar."-MALCOLM's Londinium, vol. 3, p. vol. 4, p. 272.

513.

ARIOSTO Saying that when Rodomonti set fire to Paris the houses were all of wood, adds

"Ch' in Parigi ora

"THE Rhizomorpha - —a fungus. This genus, which vegetates in dark mines, far from the light of day, is remarkable for its phosphorescent properties. In the coal mines near Dresden it gives those places De le dieci le sei son cosi ancora.” the air of an enchanted castle. The roofs, walls, and pillars are entirely covered with them; their beautiful light almost dazzling the eye."-ED. PHIL. Journ. vol. 14, p. 178. TURNER'S Sacred History, p. 92.

SCURVY-wainscotted rooms instead of walled ones thought to mitigate or prevent the disease.-OLAUS MAGNUS, p. 653.1

"MR. BURTON, afterwards Lord Conyngham, was with Lord Charlemont on his passage from Greece to Malta, when a tempest came on, and the Captain at length advised them to prepare for the worst. Burton broke the dead silence which ensued by exclaiming "Well," and I fear with an oath, "this is fine indeed. Here have I been pampering this great body of mine for more than twenty years; and all to be a prey to some cursed shark, and be damned to him!" -HARDY. Life of Lord Charlemont, vol. 1, p. 38.

Such a feeling many a man entertains towards his heir.

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C. 16, St. 26, tom. 2, p. 153.

THE slaughter of the pagan put a stop to by night.

"Dal Creatore accelerata forse, Che de la sua fattura ebbe pietade." And then

"Villani e lupi rescir' poi de la grotte A dispogharli, e a divorar la notte." Ibid. c. 18, st. 162, tom. 2, p. 275. ASTOLFO, in ARIOSTO'S abominable story is by his courtiers

"Lodato

Or del bel viso, or de la bella mano."
C. 28, st. 6, tom. 3, p. 250.

ARIOSTO Speaks of

“L'audaci galee dè Catalani.”

Orl. Fur. c. 42, st. 38, tom. 5, p. 14.

"LA ferocità de' montoni, ferendo loro il corno presso l'orecchia, si possa initigere." SANAZZARO. Parn. Ital. vol. 16, p. 229.

"EL ʊnzeno mandamiento
Es, no estorvaràs."

i. e. not interfere in a quarrel.
CALDERON. El Maestro de Danzas.
SOLDIERS Could not be quartered upon
an hidalgo. The high-minded labrador in
Calderon's play, (El Garrotte mas bien dado)
is advised to buy an executoria for the sake
of this exemption.

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"Arqui ante annos viginti-quinque nihil receptius erat apud Brabantos, quam thermæ publicæ eæ nunc frigent ubique. Scabies enim nova docuit nos abstinere." - ERASMUS. Diversoria, p. 172.

A. D. 1459. JOHNES's Monstrelet, vol. 10, pp. 44-7, a horrid persecution at Arras for witchcraft. Vaudoisie it was called, meaning a nightly meeting of sorcerers, for to this calumny the poor Vaudois were exposed! It was known "that these charges had been raked up by a set of wicked persons against some of the principal inhabitants of Arras, whom they hated, and whose wealth they coveted."

Ibid. p. 69.-MILITARY patrols established in France, which made travelling safe. The Escorcheurs were thus employed. This was in the latter years of Charles VII.

MONSTRELET, vol. 10, p. 74. "It has been commonly said that the sons of the kings of France are made knights at the font when baptized."

Des gens de Guerre.

"Je ne connois qui que ce soit

De ceux qui maintenant suivent Mars et
Bellone,

Qui s'il ne violoit, voloit, tuoit, bruloit,
Ne fust assez bonne personne."

Le Chevalier de Cayney. RECUEIL,
tom. 4, p. 211.

DE CHARLEVAL, ibid. p. 301. Au Roy. "Tout l'Univers s'ément quand ta fondre s'aprest,

Où la crainte, où l'amour, partagent tous les Rois;

Et le Batave ingrat, et si fier autrefois, N'observe qu'en tremblant où fondrà la tempeste.

De son frivole orgueil, de sa temerité,
Tu dois un grand exemple à la posterité,
Et son abaissement importe pour ta gloire.
Tu le veux; il suffit; son sort est dans ta
main;

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"SOME (in Edward III.'s reign) had a project that men's clothes might be their signs to show their birth, degree, or estate. so that the quality of an unknown person might at the first sight be expounded by his apparel. But this was once let fall as impossible. Statesmen, in all ages, (notwithstanding their several laws to the contrary) being fain to connive at men's riot in this kind, which maintaineth more poor people than their charity."-FULLER. Church History, p. 117.

HERODOTUS, lib. 2, § 137.-Criminals in Egypt condemned to the public works,

"GENERALLY speaking, a person connected with grain will tell you at once where any sample of wheat from any part of Europe, or any part of the world, comes from.”—MR. JOSEPH SANDERS. Agric. Report, 1833, p. 216.

"THE times forbidden to matrimony were from Advent Sunday till a week after Epiphany; from Septuagesima Sunday till a week after Easter; and from Ascension day

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